Measure for Measure

Act 4, Scene 6

SCENE VI. Street near the city gate.

Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA

To speak so indirectly I am loath:
I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,
That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;
He says, to veil full purpose.

Be ruled by him.

Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
He speak against me on the adverse side,
I should not think it strange; for ′tis a physic
That′s bitter to sweet end.

I would Friar Peter—

O, peace! the friar is come.

Enter FRIAR PETER

Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!

Exeunt

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